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Bars (Drinking establishments) Bars (Drinking establishments) Fiction Chicago (Ill.) Fiction Detective and mystery stories Illinois Chicago London (England) History 17th century Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Murder victims Murder victims FictionSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: "In the taut thriller Alice, a woman, is pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Simon. While on vacation with two close girlfriends, Alice rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective. Slowly, she starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. But Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering and, once unleashed, it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALICalvino, Italo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalin, Cassandra
Summary: Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with this funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic novel about change. Goodbye, old life... Lia and her family are waiting to board a flight across the Atlantic, leaving behind family, friends, and Romania -- the only home Lia has ever known. But Lia's heartache is overshadowed by the discomfort of her first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CALCalvino, Italo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvino, Italo.
Contents: Under the jaguar sun -- A king listens -- The name, the nose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvino, Italo.
Summary: In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRIColvin, Jeffrey
Summary: "A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCalvino, Italo.
Summary: Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALKasulke, Calvin
Summary: "A mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm finds his consciousness uploaded into the company's internal Slack channel"-- Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm, has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels. At least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it is just an elaborate ploy to exploit their lax work-from-home...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASCalvi, Mary
Summary: "A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee-many of them never before published-If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvi, Mary
Summary: "Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted." --George Washington Unrequited love might have sparked a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution. Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALWilcox, Collin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCalkins, Susanna
Summary: "A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALScragg, Robert
Summary: Did she slip through the cracks, or was she pushed? When a severed hand is found in an abandoned flat, Detective Jake Porter and his partner Nick Styles are able to DNA match the limb to the owner, Natasha Barclay, who has not been seen in decades. But why has no one been looking for her? It seems that Natasha’s family are the people who can least be trusted. Delving into the details...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCRWilcox, Collin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCalkins, Susanna
Summary: Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father, and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. It's a glamorous world of sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room, a flirtatious jazz pianist and a brooding photographer-- all overseen by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Batchelor, John Calvin.
Summary: A group of American expatriates and their children, living in Sweden, find themselves battling for survival with desperate guerrilla bands on forbidding archipelagos in Antarctica and South America
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATCaplin, Julie
Summary: When Sophie Bennings arrives in New York, love is the last thing on her mind. Still reeling from a painful break up, she throws herself into her work as a food editor on a top-notch magazine. Columnist Todd McLennan is everything that Sophie wishes she didn't want. Like the gorgeous bakery below her Brooklyn apartment, he's as tempting as the delicious cupcakes on display. Surely a little of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHACanin, Ethan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCanin, Ethan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANColwin, Laurie.
Summary: The courtship of Vincent Cardworthy and Misty Berkowitz and the marriage of Holly Stergis and Guido Morris are marked by practical concerns, romance, surprises, luck, and no upper hands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLTresselt, Alvin
Summary: The magical miniature scene in a candy egg delights the several toys which take a peek inside, but only the little girl for whom the egg is an Easter gift can see the entire wonderous picture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1967